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Dorothy Hamill

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Figure Skater

The Resume

    (July 26, 1956- )
    Raised in Riverside, Connecticut
    Won the Olympic Gold Medal for figure skating (1976)
    Won the World Championship (1976)
    Star of the Ice Capades (1977-84)
    Three time U.S. National Champion (1974, 75, 76)
    Bought the Ice Capades (1991)
    US Figure Skating Hall of Famer (1991)
    Does a commercial for Vioxx, a drug to treat arthritis

Why she might be annoying:

    When she was a top ranking junior skater, she would do her leaps and spins in practice, with disregard to the courteousy of other skaters on the ice.
    In a famous incident, she went on the ice while the partisan German crowd booed the judges for giving the hometown girl, Gerti Schanchet, low marks.
    She thought the crowd booed her, so she broke down and cried uncontrollably for several minutes.
    When the crowd realized what had happened, and Dorothy went back on to the ice to retrieve her skate guards, the crowd cheered her wildly to make up for it.
    She regained her composure and decided that she would skate, and won the Silver Medal at the World Championship (1974).
    She did hair product commercials.
    She married Dean Paul Martin (Dean Martin's son), but that marriage only lasted a few years.
    Her second marriage also ended in divorce.
    She declared bankruptcy (1994).
    She did a hair commercial for Short & Sassy and another commercial for Lifesavers.
    She does a commercial for Vioxx.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her wedge hair style became popular in the mid '70s.
    She suffers from nerves and sometimes skates with anxiety.
    When she purchased the Ice Capades, she eliminated their weekly weigh-in of skaters, feeling that it humiliated them.
    She is left handed.
    A spin she perfected was named in her honor 'The Hamill Camel.'
    Ladies Home Journal once selected her 'The Most Trusted Woman in the United States.'
    On her official web site, she doesn't whore out junk to sell.
    She does charity work for the American Cancer Society and Big Brothers and Big Sisters.
    She helped raise $4,000,000 for the Ronald McDonald House.
    She spends time with the March of Dimes, teaching blind children to ice skate.
    Despite being superstitious, she skated 13th on Friday February 13, the day she won the Olympic Gold Medal.

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 139 Votes: 23.02% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 14 Votes: 7.14% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 173 Votes: 47.40% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 96 Votes: 45.83% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 11 Votes: 18.18% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 42 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 61 Votes: 83.61% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 26 Votes: 34.62% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 62 Votes: 46.77% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 36 Votes: 47.22% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 111 Votes: 54.05% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 141 Votes: 46.81% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 2319 Votes: 42.60% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 462 Votes: 36.15% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 1057 Votes: 69.25% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 3022 Votes: 50.99% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 364 Votes: 41.21% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 979 Votes: 48.62% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 822 Votes: 48.54% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 1018 Votes: 52.26% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 9417 Votes: 47.33% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 3904 Votes: 53.18% Annoying